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Learn a technique in which you can turn the night into day and day into night. You can get this effect by importing a footage from the internet or recording it yourself and dragging it to the Filmora 11 timeline. Let’s see how to get this effect.
Import your footage onto the project and drag your first video which is a rainforest, onto the timeline. Move to the effect menu where you can find some effects from Boris FX effects. Place the day for night effect right above your video. You will get the light settings like it is night with this effect.
In the pre-set section, go to the drop-down menu and choose a pre-set. Go with the light which looks a little intense so work with the sliders. Open up the color section and see how it works with different settings. Increase the blur color tint for a night effect.
How to Create Day to Night Video Effect
What you need to prepare:
- A computer (Windows or macOS)
- Your video materials.
- Filmora video editor
Download and Install Filmora
To begin with, you need to install the latest version of the software to your system. Be it the Windows or Mac, Filmora supports both the leading OS.

Import the Footage
Import the clip in which you want to transform night into day or day into night effect and launch it into Filmora 11 timeline to proceed with adding the effects.

Add First Effect
After introducing footage into the timeline, start adding different effects to convert your footage into either day or night. In the sample footage, we are going to convert this footage from day to night with some effects.
Go to effects > Boris FX > Day for Night effect

In the pre-set section, go to the drop down menu and choose a pre-set. Go with the light which looks a little intense so work with the sliders. Open up the color section and see how it works with different settings. Increase the blur color tint for a night effect.
Adjust the settings for three sections; Colour, Light and Darken to make the effect look more natural.

Add Second Effect
For the second overlay, Go to effects > BBC Mist Effect. In the Mist section, work with the brightness, Blur X and Y. Also adjust the color accordingly. In the Matte section, work with ‘Mix with original option’. Now the video gives a night effect.

Adjust the settings in the Mist, Colour Contrast and Matte. You can also use some pre-sets and don’t forget to mix with original.

Add third Effect
Go to effects > BBC Dual gradient effect and place it above the two effects.

Double click the effect and work with the settings in different domains. Don’t forget to mix with the original to give a natural look.

Add Fourth Effect
Go to Effects > Boris FX > BCC lights > Add BCC lightning effect. Go to the color settings, work with the darkness, sensitivity and soften the video. Select reverse to focus on dark parts of the video rather than focusing on the bright parts which is great because at night time there isn’t any light to illuminate the sky.

Double click the effect and work with seed and other presets.

Add Fifth Effect
Go to Effects > Vignette and add simple vignette effect to enhance the outer sides of the video

Add more Effects
Go to Effects > Rain effects > Cinematic Filter Pack overlay

Export and add Key Frames
Export the video and add key frames.
Go to Animation > Customize > Add key frame > decrease opacity to zero

Trying out this day to night and night to day effect looks really fun and within some minutes, you can manipulate the time of the day so let this guide assist you and master the skill of applying these multiple effects in some minutes.
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